Archives for
December 2011

Regardless of whether you ever subscribed to home delivery of The New York Times, you may have received an email on Wednesday that offered to give you a deal if you re-subscribe. Although some of the email's more than 8 million recipients and members...

Internet shoppers were happy with Amazon and disappointed in Netflix this holiday season, according to a study released Wednesday. In an annual index of ecommerce sites' customer satisfaction by analytics firm ForeSee, Amazon's performance improved w...

It's possible your Roomba has more to say online than you do. A new social network, MyRobots, hopes to be the "Facebook for robots." The network allows users to connect their robotic devices, which can then post status updates like, "The cat is in my...

Now that Facebook Timeline is available to the public, the social network has integrated the new look and feel with its Android, mobile web and iPhone apps; but what about the iPad? According to 9to5Mac, Facebook is aiming for a mid to late January a...

The votes have been cast, the results have been tallied and the death of Osama bin Laden has been named the top news story of 2011 according to AOL's "11 Days That Shaped 2011" challenge. Organized in chronological order, Osama bin Laden's death was ...

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In what may be the first marriage proposal on Google+, a man asked his girlfriend to marry him on the network via the game Crime City. On the other hand, it could be just a clever marketing stunt. According to Funzio, the company behind the game, it ...

Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, a nonprofit organization that promotes youth entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment and underemployment. The YEC provides young entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship, and...

We usually rely on year-end box office numbers and movie critics to determine which films most captivated our hearts and attention, and this year's big winner was the final movie in the Harry Potter franchise. But cinematic demand can also be seen by...

As previously noted, this Christmas was a big one for the smartphone category. While Flurry Analytics found that 6.8 million Android and iOS devices were activated on Christmas Day, though, the company declined to outline how much share each platform...

Heads Up with Cristiano Ronaldo -- a mobile game featuring the Portuguese soccer star -- has already been a hit for parent company RockLive after less than a month in the iTunes App Store. Users have spent more than 225 million minutes playing the ga...

UPDATE: Twitter would not comment on this particular matter, but gave us this statement: "To help users protect their rights, it is our policy to notify our users about law enforcement and governmental requests for their information, unless we are pr...

Klout is a hot-button issue in the social networking world, and it’s a touchy subject for many. The two-year-old company— which provides social media analytics to measure a user’s influence across social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Plukka Quick Pitch: Social shopping wit...

Graduate student Liz Langer has recovered a stranger's Mercedes keys from a sewer using a fishing pole and magnet. She's assembled a Festivus pole for a holiday party she didn't attend, and delivered coffee to an office building she never worked in -...

Whether it opens the doors of knowledge or turns us into lazy researchers, the web can instantly gratify most inquiries. So when we wondered which questions weighed heaviest on the minds of Internet users this year, we naturally turned to the same Q&...

This past year was a big one for the QR code as the mobile call-to-action surfaced in campaigns for The Home Depot, Taco Bell and other mainstream brands. In some cases, however, brands are adopting QR codes without thoroughly thinking through their ...

Chris Schreiber is director of marketing at social video advertising company Sharethrough. Before joining Sharethrough, Chris worked in the Global Communications and Public Affairs Department for Google. In 2011, many companies knew they needed to mo...

Members of the Reddit community have launched a digital grassroots campaign against pro-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) politicians. Redditors began the campaign Wednesday with a post asking fellow Redditors for suggestions on a politician to target. T...

Verizon customers who make single payments by phone or online will be charged a $2 fee per payment starting January 15. The new fee is intended to offset the cost of processing these payments. "The fee will help allow us to continue to support these ...

The Behind the Social Media Campaign Series is supported by Oneupweb, a relentless digital marketing agency focused on search, social and design for mid-to-enterprise level brands. Download our free digital marketing magazine, The Merge, and our bonu...

Dust off your old and beat up records, there might just be a way to get them to sing again. Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Library have managed to coax sound out of 125-year-old recordings using 3D optical scanning technology. Best of all...

Redbox, the kiosk rental company that has outpaced traditional retail rental shops, has shared its most rented films of 2011. With Netflix making the controversial decision to increase its prices, Redbox's value proposition for movie and video game r...

What do you do after your site grows to 800 million users and expands to 1 trillion pageviews per month? Why, plan a $100 billion IPO, of course! Going public is clearly the biggest thing on tap for Facebook in 2012, but the world's most populated so...

Social media continued to thrive in 2011 as it fomented revolutions in Egypt, Libya and Bahrain. But investors appeared to be a lot less enthralled. Looking back over the 19 social media IPOs of 2011, Kevin Pleines -- an analyst with Birinyi Associat...

Curry Smith is affiliated with NOLAbound, a unique program that immerses 25 professionals in New Orleans business to discuss the city's entrepreneurial and social media influence. You can apply to be considered for a spot in the program at www.benola...

If one Seattle man had his way, all playing cards would have faces -- the faces of Internet memes. Ray Thomas has launched a Kickstarter project to raise $4,200 for the production of playing cards that would feature 52 memes, including Success Kid, B...

The Designer Tech Series is supported by the exquisitely crafted, new 2013 Lincoln MKS with Lincoln Drive Control. Now it gets interesting. Smart technology in watch form has captivated the world since the days of Dick Tracy, but since the turn of th...

Your social media profiles have morphed as the sites they live on have changed. So has the way people view them. To get a better idea of how profile design affects profile viewers, Mashable asked eye-tracking research startup EyeTrackShop to compare ...

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